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A Small Fish in a Big Pond
Successfully operating an independent hospital in a sea of large hospital systems is no easy task. How do you maintain negotiating power? How do you retain staff? How do you keep private equity at bay? Kurt Barwis, President and CEO of Bristol Health in Bristol, CT, joins us to talk about how to stand out – and stand up – for his hospital’s independence, and his community.
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Another Round: Steward Health Care
“Another Round”, a new, bonus addition to 43cc, offers short, follow-up news and commentary on stories we’ve reported on in the past. In this episode, Wendy and Matt give an update on Steward Health Care.
A Profession in Peril
What do we lose, as physicians and as patients, when society no longer treats medicine as a profession? What are the moral, ethical, and practical consequences of treating healthcare practitioners as shift workers? Matt and Wendy dive into a deep, and at times emotional, conversation about what it means to be a medical professional. Listen now!
Locusts?
Why is private equity trying to take over healthcare? And what does the law have to say about it? Erin C. Fuse Brown, an expert on private-equity investment in healthcare and Professor of Health Services, Policy & Management at Brown University, joins us to talk about the official – and unofficial – corporate practice of medicine from a legal perspective.
The End of Noncompetes?
Thirty million Americans are bound by noncompetes… or are they? A new FTC ruling signals a seismic shift in favor of physicians and patients, and we’re all for it. Matt and Wendy break down all 500 pages of what banning noncompetes could mean for healthcare, and the contractual language doctors still need to look out for buried in the fine print.
We Need to Talk About Steward
April 25, 2024We Need to Talk About Steward A massive health system in the Northeast on the brink of collapse, private equity waiting (hiding?) in the wings, and hundreds of thousands of patients at risk of losing care? We need to talk about Steward Health. "When you...
Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage Healthcare
April 11, 2024Private Equity's Plan to Pillage Healthcare To put it bluntly, private equity is laundering their greed through the good will of healthcare. Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department's...
Meet the Glaucomfleckens
March 28, 2024Meet the Glaucomfleckens What happens when "Feelings Bro" and "A Guy Who's Good At Science and Can Lift 300lbs Directly Over His Head" meets Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken? Laughs, of course, but also a deadly serious conversation about how to use humor...
WTF Does “43cc” Mean?
March 14, 2024WTF Does 43cc Mean? Is it a podcast? A movement? A random show title that Wendy came up with because she couldn't think of anything else? What the f**k does "43cc" actually mean?!? Matt and Wendy explain what "43cc" is, but more importantly, why it...
The Health Insurance Industry’s Worst Nightmare
February 29, 2024"The Health Insurance Industry's Worst Nightmare" Healthcare professionals have long thought that insurance companies were lying to us. According to our next guest, we're right. Wendell Potter, former Senior VP of CIGNA, opens up about 'how health...
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